NPP and mayors call for the north to lead green Industrial Revolution
11.03.22 Our vice-chair Professor Juergen Maier CBE has joined forces with northern mayors Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Dan Jarvis...
Read moreThe Levelling Up White Paper can be a blueprint for success for the North
17.02.22 With the dust settled after its long awaited launch, Arcadis’ Northern Cities Executive, Richard Bonner takes a closer...
Read moreCan ‘Smart’ Opportunity Areas help close the education disadvantage gap?
28.01.22 In 2016, Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening introduced a new initiative to increase social mobility in...
Read moreNorthern regions lose out on levelling up funding post-Brexit
03.02.22 Every region in England except Cornwall risks seeing funding halved post Brexit, analysis of the Shared Prosperity Fund...
Read more‘Second-class’ rail investment for the north, as government publishes IRP
19.11.21 Yesterday the government published its much-anticipated Integrated Rail Plan and confirmed that the eastern leg of HS2 will...
Read moreThe North delivered almost a third of UK green investment performance in 2020, finds EY
20.10.21 The North of England attracted almost a third (29%) of the UK’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) backed cleantech...
Read moreNorth takes a lead in carbon capture technology
19.10.21 Two Northern schemes have been selected as forerunners in a carbon capture and storage cluster programme by the...
Read moreNorthern Powerhouse Rail could boost economy by £22bn in next three decades
12.10.21 One key section of Northern Powerhouse Rail alone could deliver a £22bn boost to the Northern economy by...
Read moreNorth East A-Level results fall behind
10.08.21 There were more worrying signs of a growing North-South divide in education today, as A-Level students across the...
Read moreInnovation Strategy could be turning point in a Northern Fourth Industrial Revolution
By Professor Juergen Maier CBE, vice-chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and co-chair of Made Smarter UK 27.07.21 For a long time,...
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